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The Prime Minister and a clutch of senior ministers will witness first-hand today the arrival of two Joint Strike Fighter aircraft in Australia, which will take to the skies at the Avalon Air Show near Melbourne. Australia has ordered 72 of the aircraft at a cost of nearly $18 billion dollars. ...

The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in the wake of US President-elect Donald Trump's Twitter post, which described the cost of the JSF program as 'out of control'. The share price of JSF manufacturer Lockheed Martin fell by nearly 2.5 per cent in ...

Residents near the Williamtown defence base are preparing for the first court proceedings in their class action against the Department of Defence tomorrow. They're seeking financial compensation for decline in property values, after chemicals on the base leached into their groundwater. It ...

Australia and Japan are vying to become the Asia-Pacific servicing hub for the new generation of fighter aircraft known as the Joint Strike fighter, or F-35. The Minister for Defence Industry, Christopher Pyne, is travelling to Washington this week to put Australia's case and he says our ...